A favourite addition to gumbos and bisques as well as fried or boiled by itself, the crawfish prospers in the wild in Bayous and ditches across the southern half of the State. Crawfish are also raise...

cotton was more profitable than sugar cane and, if the land could support it, was a favoured crop in the State. The incursion of the boll-weevil, though, drastically reduced the farmland devoted to t...

The Louisiana seal features a brown pelican stripping feathers and skin from its breast to feed its young chicks. This symbol is also associated with Jesus and appears in medieval cathedrals in Europ...